Improvement in motive power



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

FREDERIC KETTLER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT 'IN MOTIVE POWER.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, FREDERIC KETTLER, ot Milwaukee, State of Visconsin,have invented a new and useful mode to gain from the irregular motion ofthe air a regular, steady, and continual motive power for thepropulsionof machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact dedescription thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,making a part of the specication.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use myinvention,-I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure D is a front View of this machine, and Fig. E a side View of thesame machine. Figs. A and B represent this machine in combination with asaw and planing` mill.

1 in Fig. D is a sail-beam with wind, when connected with conical wheel2, which operates in conical wheel 3, the latter being fast on axle 4.Wheel 5, which is fastenedto the stme axle, operates in wheel 6. Thiswheel 6 runs in an upright bracket, 7, connected with axle 8, andoperates in wheels 5 and 9. y Roller 10 is provided with a chain, 1l,from Which is suspended the weight 12, according to the dimensions ofthe machinery. \Vheel13, Fig. B, operates in bracket 14, as shown inFig. A. 15 is a movable hammer. 16 is a crank-rod, in connection withthe hammer 15. 17 is a crank-lever, and 18 an iron rod, in connectionwith hammer 15 and crank-lever 17. According to the requisite power oneor more weights may be used, each of them beingprovided with the samearrangement as the one described. The Wheels in place of Wheels 3, 5,and 9 are fastened on the same axle, 4 and 23, i

all windwheels in this manner combining their power in the winding ofeach weight.

Operation: The wind-wheel, being set in motion, transfers motion towheels 3 and 5 by means of conical wheels and axle or shaft. Wheel 6,being in gear with wheel 5, transfers the motion of wheel 5 towheel 24,at the same time revolving shaft 10, thus winding up Weight 12. Vhenthis weight in winding reaches crank-lever 17, the latter throws oft'wire rod 18 from its restingpoint, where it supported hammer l5. Uponthe removal of this rod 18, hammer 15 falls on point 22, thus drawingwheel 6 ont of gear with wheel 5 to line 23, in this manner putting thisweight 12 at rest. At the moment the hammer 15 falls the second hammerrises, and thus the second and other weights are wound up and putthemselves at rest, thus forming a power sut'- iicient to operatemachines of great dimensions. When desired to operate machinery by thispower, wheel 6 is to be putin gear with wheel 9, which is accomplishedby pulling cranklever 25, upon which the hammer l5 falls on point 26,thus gearing wheels 6 and 9 and liberating weight 12, which, indescending, operates wheel 24., which transfers its motion through wheel6 to wheel 9, the drivingwheel of any attached machine to be operated.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The varrangement and combina-tion of a wind-wheel with hammer 15,Weights 12, levers, and toothed wheels, arranged and constructed asherein described, for the purpose of driving various kinds of machinery.

Witnesses: FREDERIC KETTLER.

J oEN S. HoLLrNesr-IEAD, LEwrs RAUTERLIERY.

